Jazakallah Khair to the people, who corrected for the mistake. In the original post, it mentions to wipe the face after making the dua. This however is not authentic (http://www.islamqa.com/en/ref/39174). It is fixed now.
I am using the Booklet published by Alhuda and hence assumed that it has verified stuff. Perhaps the online pdf is old.
If anyone has the latest published booklet from Alhuda, would be good to verify with the pdf.

In the book by Sh. Yasir Qadhi on Du’a, he mentions that the issue of wiping the face after Du’a is one over which there is a valid difference of opinion. If I remember correctly, all the ahadeeth which mention it are weak, but some scholars believe that the various weak ahadeeth can strengthen each other.

1. The hadith is in Bhukari (you can click on the link to see the reference). So there is no doubt in the authenticity of the hadith.
2. There are many text in Quran and Sunnah that talk about curing nature of things. Like in Quran, Allah talks about the cure in honey. Prophet (May Allah peace and blessing be on him) talked about in black seeds there is cure for all disease.
3. Islam doesn’t deny magic/black magic. Infact, In surah bakrah, Allah talks about how the two angels taught magic and all the fitna around it.
4. Two sick people might take the same honey and one is cured and the other is not. Do we then say that when Allah says in the quran about honey is incorrect (aadobillah). Instead, the cure depends on the level of emaan of the person taking it. So if the person taking honey, black seed or ajwa dates, has true emaan that this thing will cure and protect him, then it will do so. Also I think another angle to this is the whole issue was qada – divine decree. Perhaps, Allah didn’t will it to happen.

The Prophet (salallahu alayhi wa sallam) was afflicted by magic; this one reason of revelation for surah Al-Falaq and surah An-Naas; check out tafseer.com and see. Magic is true, jinns are true, and Allah’s cure is true.

1. The hadith is in Bhukari (you can click on the link to see the reference). So there is no doubt in the authenticity of the hadith.

a).Ajwa dates are exclusive dates of Medina and our Prophet eats them on daily basis, How could he been affected by magic.
AllahSWT who corrects the Prophet at times when he makes mistake like he says in chapter 66 Surat At-Taĥrīm Ayat 1regarding honey, or Would the enemies of Messenger left the oppurtunity to mock at him at such oppurtunity to say he is under magical spell and he is unaware of what he does for a period of months together according to some hadees. Lets ponder and seek more of the truth -InshaAllah.

Salaamun Alaikum
3. Islam doesn’t deny magic/black magic. Infact, In surah bakrah, Allah talks about how the two angels taught magic and all the fitna around it.

Denying Magic or SIHIR is not my contention but the verses of Surah Baqarah verses 102 is not about the Angels who taught SIHIR but its is about the Shayaateen among men who taught SIHIR and they were Harut And Maroot. Because angels cannot be seen by men. look in to the verses 2.98 of the same Surah Baqarah and its mentioned about the two angels as Gibraeal and Mekaeel who come by the leave of Allah and spread the message from HIM and its is this what Sulaiman AS beleived.

AsSalamAlykum Br Shahid,
There is no evidence to suggest that he would eat the ajwa dates on daily basis. The narration is the recommendation from him. There were days when he would fast, days where they would have nothing to eat etc.
On the bigger level, we need to understand the whole issue of divine decree properly. Also what does the verses in surah tahreem means. What does it mean that he was infalible. How do we understand the incident in surah abasa etc. Some of these can’t be put in this comment and best left for scholars to explain.
Briefly, my understanding is that in the matters of the deen, Prophets were always divinely guided and never made mistake in delivering the message and if they did, they were always corrected. But there were some wordly matters and issues, where Allah left the prophets on their own to make decisions and occasionally corrected them.
Let me know if you need further clarification

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